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These awesome stencil works are made entirely from mud. They use the graffiti taggers medium of stencils and public services to promote a variety of clean earth ideals. I think that this is a fantastic idea!!! I’ve seen graffiti made from moss and Clorox’s reverse graffiti pictures where they removed dirt to create artwork but I’ve certainly never seen mud graffiti before!
At an age when many kids are running around using spray paint to deface public spaces, the artist Jesse Graves uses mud to stencil environmental spaces in public spaces. He wants to promote eco-friendly living and make people think about the world around them. On his website Mud Stencils, he explains: “I use mud or earth because it is a fundamental life-giving substance, logical for my messages”. Pretty darn clever for someone who’s not even old enough to vote! His artwork covers such concepts as eatting wild food, feeding cows grass instead of corn, decreasing our use of plastics, alternative modes of transportation such as bikes, modifying the reduce, reuse, recycle loop to include composting which requires far less energy and wasted resources, organic gardening, growing your own foods, resisting industrial farming and has even been recently involved with a movement to allow prisoners access to used books. This teen is definitely someone’s artwork you should be on the look out for when visiting Milwaukee where he currently resides. Not only does he create these public statements of environmental responsibility and document them on his website, he also reveals his process of mud stenciling so that you can DIY. His site is definitely worth checking out — it’s full of great information (like who knew you could grind up dandelion roots to use as a coffee substitute?!?), amazing pics of his work, the process of mud stencilling and even his e-mail so that you can share your thoughts and own mud artwork with him. Jesse Graves is definitely a role model for green living kids everywhere!! |
